The Director-General of Michael Imoudu National Institute for Labour Studies, Ilorin, Kwara State, Comrade Issa Aremu, has urged Nigerians to start thinking beyond the passage of the Electoral Act charging them to source for quality politicians that can develop Nigeria in the 2023 elections.
Aremu said this while speaking in an interview with journalists in Ilorin on Tuesday on the state of the nation.
He said, “As we are moving towards 2023 elections, we must have quality control of our politics. Our politics must be very strong in the quality of elected leaders in the general elections
“It would be nice to see the Electoral Act passed into law so that we can have a free and fair election and I have no doubt that the executive will do what is necessary. But that is just the means to an end.”
He added, “The end is the development of Nigeria. We may have a free and fair election, votes may count as they have been counting with all our challenges, we are going to produce governors, senators, president, what we must ask at the end of the day is that do they deliver development to Nigeria? And that’s where the energy should be this time.”
The MINILS DG further said, “Now, whoever wants to become our Senator, our governor, our president must respond to issues of national development. Let there be a disagreement but let’s know what the disagreements are. And the disagreement should be about what will build Nigeria, and not what will divide us.”
He continued, “So, this argument that we need a president from the North or South, Muslim or Christian has nothing to do with development. There is no northern water, no Southern food, food is food, water is water for everyone, no Christian or Muslim electricity.”
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